What are processed foods and why are they bad?
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“Processed” means that the things have had stuff done to them (the process is whatever is done to them). Not foods right off the vine or whatever; food that has been treated and changed into something else.
There are a lot of processes that are done to foods, many are quite useful (like pasteurization or homogenization of milk) but the “bad” label of “Processed food” is used for foods that are so treated that they lost nutrients and are so treated by mixing with additives, flavorings, preservatives, salt, and whatever that they are actually bad for you, or at least worse for you than fresh foods.
Overcooking, mixing of poor quality ingredients, adding unneeded and sometimes potentially harmful ingredients (especially sugar and salt) are all “processes” that can make for food that is not very nutritious and even could be bad for your health if eaten frequently.
It turns out that people like food with too much sugar or too much salt, and they like food that doesn’t go bad (so filled with preservatives). It turns out that the human system isn’t designed to deal with lots of salt and sugar or preservatives. So, even though we know that such foods aren’t the best for us, we still love to eat it. We shouldn’t.
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